Template:Citation Style documentation/date

• date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.Template:R Required when year is used to disambiguate Template:Tlx links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.Template:Sup Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher.

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  • year: Year of source being referenced. Required with some types of Template:Tld citations;Template:Sup otherwise use date.
  • year: is required when |ref=harv is used and when the value in date is non-numeric in DMYYYY, MDYYYY, YYYYMD, etc. format. For example: citations with |ref=harv and |date=Winter 2012 or |date=23–24 Sep 2012, etc. require |year=2012.
  • year: is required when a CITEREF disambiguator is needed and the CS1 template is: Template:T1 or Template:T1 or Template:T1 or Template:T1 or Template:T1 only. These templates are those not marked with a green check mark in the table at the top of Help:CS1 errors. For example, if |date=1 December 2014a, then |year=2014a is required only for the above templates.
• orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: Template:Para or Template:Para.